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Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:35:41 +0000hourly1By: btempletonhttp://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/backing-up-vhd-files-on-hyper-v-2008-non-clustered/#comment-125910
Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:11:52 +0000http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/backing-up-vhd-files-on-hyper-v-2008-non-clustered/#comment-125910My understanding is this is what VSS is for. The Microsoft VSS pauses the virtual to take a backup snapshot and then resumes the virtual. You don’t have to down and restart it and it does not take as long as it would if you were doing it by hand. The important part of backup is the restore. Using Microsoft backup, you can restore the whole virtual, but you cannot restore individual files, etc. from inside the virtual. Many 3rd party backup products use the Microsoft VSS but also allow you to restore individual items from inside the virtual as well as the whole virtual.
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